unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed biographical and bibliographical data.
Included are Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and ten other outstanding writers, Mari Evans attended the University of Toledo and later taught at several other schools, including Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind, and Cornell University, Ithaca, N, Y. She began five years of writing, producing, and directing for an Indianapolis television program, “The Black Experience,” in, the same year her first poetry collection, Where Is All the Music, was published.
With her second collection, I Am a Black Woman, she gained acclaim as an important new poet, Her poem “Who Can Be Born Black” was often anthologized, Her later collections include Nightstar:, whose poems praise blues artists and community heroes and heroines, and A Dark and Splendid Mass, Continuum, published in, contains c Mari Evans attended the University of Toledo and later taught at several other schools, including Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
, and Cornell University, Ithaca, N, Y. She began five years of writing, producing, and directing for an Indianapolis television program, “The Black Experience,” in, the same year her first poetry collection, Where Is All the Music, was published.
With her second collection, I Am a Black Woman, she gained acclaim as an important new poet, Her poem “Who Can Be Born Black” was often anthologized, Her later collections include Nightstar:, whose poems praise blues artists and community heroes and heroines, and A Dark and Splendid Mass, Continuum, published in, contains classic poems from Evans's previous collections as well as new work inflected by the same unique insight into African American life that defined her earlier oeuvre.
In her works for young readers, Evans often touched on difficult topics such as child abuse Dear Corinne: Tell Somebody,and adolescent relationships I'm Late: The Story of LaNeese and Moonlight and Alisha Who Didn't Have Anyone of Her Own,.
Evans's plays include River of My Song producedand the musical Eyes produced, an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
She edited the anthology Black Women Writers: A Critical Evaluationand published Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective, a collection of essays commenting on African American politics and family life.
Oxford Companion to African American Literature: Mari Evans sitelink,